Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Mexico (1965) that describes Confederate flight as "an attempt to snatch some sort of victory out of defeat"2Andrew Rolle, The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico (Norman: University of...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...were unable to include in the one-hour documentary: additional context and perspectives for considering factory flight, international labor migration, and the organized demand for economic justice. Workers at Toyoda/TRW Plant...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...describe how crimes are prosecuted on reservations. And it involves a complicated narrative about how Oklahoma tribal jurisdiction has a unique status in relationship to other Indian reservations across the...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...this phenomenon (39, 93, 114). Despite the deep interconnectedness of the United States and Mexico, as well as the major political and social questions this interdependence engenders, narratives of US-Mexico...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
Introduction Location of Lockhart, Alabama, 2012. On a warm spring day in 1904, former governor of Maryland and lumberman E. E. Jackson, along with several associates, traveled to Alabama to...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...scene. And yet New Orleans rap has remained, in important ways, marginal within the city's dominant culture: limited in venue bookings, performance opportunities, and insurance for events;6This is one of...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...fifteen or sixteen years old, but most were in their late teens or early twenties. There were several mother-daughter pairs in the mill, and a number of the women working...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...percent of the foreign born in those two neighboring states came from Mexico in that same year. So rather than think that this migration from Mexico to New Orleans is...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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